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Inspiring
April 29, 2008
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Is my Captivate 3 SWF file 508 compliant?

  • April 29, 2008
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On the publish screen I did check the 508 box when I published the file but what does that really mean?

I didn't add and text to the "slide accessibility text" section on the slides so if I understand it right if they use a reading program of some sort it will read the text on the powerpoint slide I imported but my audio obviously won't be read unless I convert my audio into text and then paste it into each slide?

My slides have a "next" button that doesn't appear until my audio has finished.

This is a new area to me and am under the gun to answer the question. I would appreciate any help.
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    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 29, 2008
    Hi Ed

    What that option does is to enable communication between the .SWF Captivate produces and a Screen Reading application that visually impaired users may use. What is fed to the Screen Reading software is what you enter into that Slide Accessibility Text area.

    If you already have audio narration, I think it's a toss up as to the value the screen readers will offer.

    Cheers... Rick
    TG-EdAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2008
    Okday so if I put text in the slide accessibility text area do I also have to copy that same text to the closed captioning area if I want that to work?
    Captiv8r
    Legend
    April 30, 2008
    Good morning, Ed

    Indeed you will. There is nothing that will automagically place the text there for you. Maybe at some point we will see some speech to text emerge for this purpose. Unfortunately, it's not there yet.

    Cheers... Rick